Boise, James Robinson

Ph.D. (Tubingen, 1868), LL.D. (Michigan, 1868), D.D. (Brown, 1879), Baptist; b. at Bland ford, Hampden County, Ma ., Jan. 27, 1815; graduated at Brown University, 1840; was tutor there for three years, and then profe or of the Greek language; resigned in 1850, and for eighteen months pursued his studies in Germany, Greece, Italy, and France. In 1852 he became profe or of the Greek language and literature in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; in 1868 the same in the University of Chicago; in 1877 profe or of New-Testament interpretation in the Baptist Union Theological Seminary at Morgan Park, near Chicago. Besides Greek text-books for school and college use (including Exercises in Greek Prose Composition, New York, 1849; The First Six Books of Homer's Iliad, Chicago, 1868; First Le ons in Greek, Chicago, 1870; Five Books of Xenophon's Anabasis, New York, 1878), he has published Notes on Paul's Epistle to the Galatians, 1871; Romans, 1883; and to the Ephesians, the Colo i ans, Philemon, and the Philip pians, 1884.